Smokestack
['sməʊkstæk] or ['smokstæk]
Definition
(noun.) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated.
Typist: Stephanie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
Typist: Meg
Examples
- Nathan Read of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1791, invented a tubular boiler in which the flues and gases are conducted through tubes passing through the boiler into the smokestack. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The steam blast thrown into the smokestack by Hackworth, the tubular boiler of Seguin and the link motion of Stephenson were then, as they now are, the essential features of locomotives. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The air used in the process is forced at 12 into a drum in the smokestack, 11, and is heated by the escaping products of combustion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Going along the dock I saw two small smokestacks sticking up, and looking down saw a little boat. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The river steamers, with their tall smokestacks and light guards extending out, were so much impeded that the gunboats got far ahead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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